Where does “antiheroics” come from?
antiheroics (English) comes from English heroics, from English -ics, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.
antiheroics (English): The actions (heroics) of an antihero
Definitions
- The actions (heroics) of an antihero
Ancestry of “antiheroics”, step by step
antiheroics traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English heroics
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | heroics | The actions of a hero |
| 2 | English | -ics | Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or... |
| 3 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 4 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 5 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 7 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 8 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 9 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 10 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English antihero
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | antihero | A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner,... |
| 2 | English | Hero | Any of a number of legendary men and women, including the priestess loved by Leander |
| 3 | Middle English | heroes | — |
| 4 | Old French | heroes | — |
| 5 | Latin | hērōs | demigod, hero |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἥρως | a hero of the Trojan War: any of the major... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sēr- | to flow |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |